Timeline

Perhaps the first Dominican to ever have a blog. I started in 1996, and below is a brief history of my online achievements. I have always been keenly interested in technology, literature, business and government, and have thus tried to continually use internet technologies for my communications throughout my career.

 

• • • 1996 – jordhy.com was born as a personal blog. I believe it was the first dominican blog. It was developed using html (and coded in notepad). See jordhy.com’s archive.

• • • 2000 – Started using the blogger technology to update jordhy.com

• • • 2001 – The site shifted from a personal website to a photo-poetry blog. Collected poems reside in “Amor, Pasión y Vida” (Love, Passion and Life) and english poems reside in the compilation “Drunken Home”

• • • 2002 – Created Information Providers, a web development company based in Latin America

• • • 2003 – Miss Dominican Republic Universe Website (Developed by Information Providers) becomes the most visited dominican website in a week (over 250K visits), according to Alexa rankings

• • • 2004 – Created portado.com, the first dominican social site, 2k members, 20k visitors

• • • 2005 – jordhy.com goes into a long hiatus. IP expands into web advertising and application development

• • • 2006 – The media event “New Technologies Party 2006” starts the evangelism of Web 2.0 in the Dominican Republic

• • • 2007 – portado.com is select to appear in the cover of Ning.com. Also Marc Andressen links to portado Amigos (portado’s social site)

• • • 2008 – the consolidation of jordhy’s work began. A year latter 4 books where born: Toros de la Dignidad (Bulls of Dignity), Caliginofobia (Caliginophobia), Inmortal, and Constelación (Constelation). All self-published under Lulu press

• • • Late 2008 – Information Providers starts the development of the biggest e-commerce site of the dominican republic (alsuper.com.do with over 30K products)

• • • Early 2009 – jordhy.com is redesigned. All my websites got consolidated here. The theater adaptation of “Toros de la Dignidad” sees the light. “Poemas Escritos por un Toro” (Poems Written by a Bull), the first compilation of poems is readied for publication. Jordhy is honored with inclusion in the “First National Short-Story Biennial” and in the “Second International Encounter of Poets in Costa Rica”

• • • 2009 – Jordhy completed his second play, titled “Grecia Yolanda” and also his eight poetry book “Calibre 90” (Caliber 90). “Toros de la Dignidad” (Bulls of Dignity) becomes the first dominican poetry book distributed via the Internet.